iCandy: Corn Syrup-Free Cranberry Yummy Gummies

I have a confession to make. I have a secret love for gummy bears, worms, planes, bugs or even a gummy Venus di Milo. I normally don’t much care for sweet things that don’t involve chocolate or fruit. Okay, I DO make another exception for my homemade corn syrup-free marshmallows, but that’s a story for a different day.

It must be the FRUIT flavour, that’s it. Wink, wink. Except most gummy creations have no real fruit flavour and often are made with corn syrup or wheat glucose plus lots of interesting food dyes. So I made some with nothing but gelatine, real fruit juice and cane sugar. I moulded three gummy shapes, ramekin round, ice cube bricks and worms.

The first two are self explanatory, the third I made by shoving tin foil down the gaps between my metal roasting pan. A toaster oven rack would also work. If you have fancy moulds lying around the house, this is your big chance to use them. You should lightly grease any moulds with oil to prevent carnage in the unmoulding stage.

It must be the FRUIT flavour, that’s it. Wink, wink. Except most gummy creations have no real fruit flavour and often are made with corn syrup or wheat glucose plus lots of interesting food dyes. So I made some with nothing but gelatine, real fruit juice and cane sugar.I moulded three gummy shapes, ramekin round, ice cube bricks and worms. The first two are self explanatory, the third I made by shoving tin foil down the gaps between my metal roasting pan. A toaster oven rack would also work. If you have fancy moulds lying around the house, this is your big chance to use them. You should lightly grease any moulds with oil to prevent carnage in the unmoulding stage.

When we last went to the Pak N Save, I sent Frugal Man on a quest for the fruit juice of his choice. He went for cranberry. Good man. You want to avoid anything that normally prevents gelatine from setting like pineapple or kiwi juice. You also probably better off with a no vitamin C added juice, but this one still set well enough. The consistency is somewhere between a Jiggler and a gummy.

Fruit Yummy Gummy iCandy

Combine all ingredients in a sauce pan. Heat on medium, stirring occasionally until the mixture becomes clear instead of cloudy. Pour into moulds. Let sit for 30 minutes on the counter top or if you can’t wait, pop them in the freezer to firm them up. Unmould and enjoy.

For a lip puckering twist, roll the gummies in a mixture of 1 tsp citric acid and 1/2 cup sugar.

Let your imagination run wild. Construct a gummy building or create a gummy jellyfish. Don’t forget to use your best mad scientist’s laugh. Mwahahaha.

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After searching the net for a recipe for fruit juice gummy candies, this is the BEST looking recipe I’ve ever seen! Bookmarked for sure! Thank you for posting it! So nice to see something without corn syrup!

Have just had a bunch of kids at my house and they made orange flavoured gummies. Orange, because it was the only juice we had on hand. Didn’t look 100% clear but they set well. We used Ikea rubber moulds and also ice cube trays. All good, especially the ikea long ‘worm’ trays. Some of them we turned into gummy sours with great success. Kids aged from 8 to 13 and everybody loved them – including the adults who ‘helped’.

I saw this on tastespotting, and had to stop by for the recipe! I bet my kids would love these! I have some silicone ABC ice cube trays, I think this would work well with! If I decide to try this, I’ll let you know! =)

Thanks, I had a devil of a time getting it. I was shooting outside on the deck to try and get some natural back lighting and whenever I went out to shoot, the sun would go behind a cloud. Then I’d give up and come in. Then the sun would come back out. Then the cycle started over again. And again!